-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/11/06 17:50, tony mancill wrote: > Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Oct 12, Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> as described in >>> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt >>> I announce here my idea of the virtual package ircd. When I count >>> correctly are at the moment 7 different IRC-daemons in Debian and they >>> logically conflict with each other. So I would think an official virtual >>> package would be a fine solution. There are also IRC services which work >>> in general with all ircds, so it would be easier if those packages also >>> could only depend on "ircd". > > I'm not sure that multiple IRC-daemons logically conflict with other, > given that you can configure them to run on different ports. In fact, > IIRC, I've had more than one ircd-like package installed on a single > system in the past. > > Perhaps you could share more information about what the virtual package > would allow?
It's also possible to run multiple FTP servers, each listening on a different port, but all the packaged ftp daemons "Conflicts: ftp-server". - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFLX+RS9HxQb37XmcRAhoiAJ9dZSyrlMXo/hBj00KeGe2iy9RXGQCfXAvH plZVoE5N6/GDwYTkKPSTkWQ= =IWta -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
